THOUGH DOOMED TO FAIL, THE IMPEACHMENT COMPLAINTS ARE SIGNIFICANT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It may very well be the case that all impeachment complaints filed are headed to the garbage bin. After all, Neil Tupas, the sycophant who put his meager legal skills at the service of the Administration so that a Chief Justice could be ousted, guards the gate. There can be no better indictment of the Administrations allies than the shameless avowal of one Congressman: I havent read the complaint, but I know it is unmeritorious. Unless he is gifted with prescience -- which he surely is not -- then there is no better portrayal of the prostitution of institutions manned by scoundrels. Tupas, frantically licking his Masters boots, has gone one step further. He has filed a bill that apparently puts the JDF beyond the reach of the Chief Justice and sends justices and judges groveling before congressmen for allowances and benefits. And for congressmen for whom statesmanship is as alien as the furthest galaxies the Hubble Telescope can reach, this means leverage to exact favorable judgments from our courts, the very evil the Constitution sought to forestall! Back to the impeachment complaints. They prove three important points. First, the President is not as popular as he has always thought he has been. His spokespersons tried to placate an irate nation after the bullying speech delivered the night before. They were profuse in protestations of submission to the Supreme Court in matters judicial. But if youth, civic organizations and ordinary citizens bother to put pen to paper in what they realistically know is a doomed attempt at unseating PNoy, it should nevertheless be clear that the nation no longer holds him to be the conquering hero of righteousness. In fact, it never did -- except for the corralled Yellow Glee Club! Second, the fact that we know that the effort is doomed to fail demonstrates the evil of a Presidency that does not have to declare martial law or sweep aside the Constitution to make of itself an autocracy. It merely has to tame, threaten, cajole and -- yes, bribe the members of the Congress, either by PDAF or DAP. Third, it points to a glaring need to re-write the accountability provisions of our Constitution -- Article 11, specifically. I am not now passing on the merits (or lack thereof) of the present complaints. But it is clear that the system does not work. It can lend itself to tremendous injustice. We saw this in the case of CJ Corona, and we see it again, in the injustice of complaints that will certainly, on Tupas desk, lie there and die there. As for Tupas assuring us that his committee will give the complaints serious attention and thought, who is he fooling? He should credit the public with more talent than the paucity of talent he so blatantly exhibited at the impeachment trial -- for who will ever forget the scolding he repeatedly received from JPE (even if PNoy has successfully jailed him, that will not change the fact that he made mincemeat of Tupas squeaking!) and Miriam, cancer notwithstanding! And for Gods sake, lets stop talking about JDF and SAJ, because that allows Malacanan to change the topic of the conversation. They have some serious questions to answer, one being whether they in fact bribed the so-called Senator-judges. (They are not and were never judges, as the Constitution defines judges. They remained senators sitting collectively as a court of impeachment. Senator-judge was flattery, plain and simple!
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:58:10 +0000
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